Look! I made a run blog

Goals, training logs, and race results from an Atlanta-based runner

[malloryrunsthis]

SHALANE!!!!

[breatherunlive]

Amazing!!!!! 😍

[runningfurtherfaster]

Are you even a runner if you didn’t cry along with her at the finish line?

[goaldengoats]

ALL

[watchmeganrun]

When you live in Atlanta, you have to start running before sunrise.

Met with a small group training for Chicago yesterday morning and got 4 miles in. Then ran with ATC's 11 minute pace group for their 11 mile route. And oh man was our 11 mile route hilly.

Also I think my hunger is now constant. I want to eat everything always.

[watchmeganrun]

First long run of the season with my Atlanta Track Club training group. Looks like an 11 minute pace is what I should aim for.

Also omg first time running over a half marathon. 😱

[just-shower-thoughts]

What if my dog thinks that I just stand on the other side of my apartment’s door for 8 hours a day?

[watchmeganrun]

Chicago Marathon training - Sunday long run. Was planning on doing my run yesterday morning with a training group. Unfortunately cramps only let me sleep 3 hours that night, so I had to be flexible.

Last week, my 12 miler was hot and slow with some very ambiguously timed walk breaks. I decided that I would be more structured with my walk breaks this week, so I set my garmin for 1 mile intervals with a 2 minute walk. This doesn’t count the times I stopped my watch for a water and GU break or the time I pet Lord Whimsy (best neighborhood cat ever).

You’ll notice I cheated and added some walk breaks towards the end there, but hey. I ran out of water and the sun came out. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’m very proud of my run and am looking forward to training with others soon!

[watchmeganrun]

Today was a good day for running. I'm tentatively training for the Chicago Marathon and am approximately 17 weeks out. 😱

I had 6 miles on the schedule this morning. Most Saturday mornings, I am a run lead for Atlanta Track Club's Midtown training group for the Peachtree Road Race (largest 10k on the planet). We have six training locations around town. Today was different because ATC hosted the Braves 5k this morning in Marietta. For those run leads and training participants not doing the official 5k, we hosted an unofficial 5k at the Track Club's office.

I carpooled with my neighbor who is also a run lead, Katie. After helping set up, I ran 2 loops around the block for a total of 2.6 miles. Last part of that run was a sprint because I ALMOST missed out on the Run Lead group picture. After stretches and pictures with the participants, we did a .6 mile warm up and then launched into the 5k. All told, I got about 10 kilometers in.

After practice, Katie and I got Starbucks and they accidentally made me two drinks. And not long after that I went to the movies with Marshall to see Wonder Woman. (Seriously that movie has made me feel like I could run a marathon and then destroy someone. Go see itttt)

It's been a good day.

[camewiththeframe]

“My message to young girls is that you can do much more than you ever can imagine” -Katherine Switzer

[drinkingcristinastequila]

Kathrine Switzer crossed the finish line at 4:44:31. x

[miss-sardonic-deactivated202301]

In 1967, she ran the Boston Marathon as the first female numbered entrant. The photo shows a race official trying to rip her bib off. Women were not officially allowed to run the Boston Marathon until 1972. 

[margotmooreauthor]

So this will be a bit difficult

I decided to sit down and come up with a big picture plan of what is going to keep me busy for the rest of the year. Y'know. To get mentally prepared. Ha. Haha. Please note that I only have work travel planned out through May because we have not yet set dates for the remaining work travel. 🙃

This weekend: visit sister in Indiana and run the Hoosier half marathon

Start training for the Chicago Marathon on April 9th (26 week plan)

Volunteer weekly as a Run Lead for ATC’s Peachtree Road Race training program starting April 15th

Parents visit for Easter

Week of April 24th: Work trip to California

Week of May 1st: Work trip to either PA or TN

May 10th: work trip to TN

May 11th through 15th: Family vacation to CO

May 16 - 17ish: Work trip to AL

Week of May 22: Work trip to PA

June 4: Start weekly marriage prep class

Maybe go to a wedding shower sometime in the summer in Huntsville

July 4th: Peachtree Road Race

Mid/Late July: Start ATC’s weekly marathon training program (will likely choose not to be a run lead)

August 18th: Move into new apartment

October 8th: Chicago Marathon

October 15th: Tax filing deadline (work deadline where all 3 of my major clients are due)

October 21st: Get married

October ???: Honeymoon

So that’s happening? The big stuff for the wedding is already planned thank goodness. I think I’m honestly going to use my long runs to just go over wedding to dos and gain some sort of mental peace. My reward after the wedding (other than spending the rest of my life with Marshall obv) will be joining Marshall’s gym and taking up kickboxing. Honestly I think I will need to punch things sooner than that, but I don’t want to try a new thing during marathon training. 🤷‍♀️Going to work extra hard to stay healthy and injury free through it all. And mentally sane. Important things.

[watchmeganrun]

I can do all of this while training for the Chicago, right??

[pearshapedcomics]

[tastefullyoffensive]

by Pear-Shaped comics

[laughingfish]

This is the funniest shit I’ve ever seen

[watchmeganrun]

I look SO happy to be running races again. Seriously, screw that stress fracture.

[goaldengoats]

DAILY REMINDER TO DO SOME DAMN PUSH-UPS!!!

💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

[watchmeganrun]

So I traded my metatarsal stress fracture

For a metatarsophalangeal joint sprain, aka turf toe. Ahaha what is my life

[gastrogirl]

wholesome lentil protein bowls.

[runningonsmoothies]

“I’ve always been self conscious about my body as a runner. I’m not tall and lean and light on my feet like most of the world’s best distance runners. These feelings lasted for 20+ years until last week when Tim Layden of @sportsillustrated wrote this about me: ‘The first laps of his 800s always looked like torture, his upper body swiveling from side to side and his knees driving as he tried to generate enough speed to stay close to the leaders, yet also stay relaxed. If world record holder David Rudisha of Kenya runs like a doe shaken from the forest, Symmonds is a bison rumbling on the open plain—running incongruously fast. But in the final 200, Symmonds was transformed. Driving his arms and lowering his head, he would transition into a full sprint, mowing down the smoother runners who led him around the track, grimacing as if it hurt fiercely, which it did. Every mediocre wannabe middle-distance runner who had known the anaerobic agony of the 800 could feel a kinship with Symmonds. Few men in history have run the distance faster (32, to be exact), fewer still have made it look more difficult.’ Never pretty, but it usually got the job done. Moral of the story: you have to play the cards you are dealt, so wake up each day and train to be the best damn Bison you can be!” - Nick Symmonds

[onelovingsister]

If you want to feel your shoulders burning your core working and your legs shaking and end your session dripping in sweat and fully relaxed, try this 70 minute yoga video. I’ve only been able to make it through the entire thing in one go twice. Yesterday was the second time. And it was awesome. Plus, all you need is a yoga mat (or not, but your palms will get sore if you do it on hardwood or tile :P). 

[busybeerunningfree]

Dude, my arms are like noodles! I’m definitely gonna need to work on some of those poses because I had to modify a few if I wasn’t flexible enough or strong enough.

[onelovingsister]

I started doing yoga because I needed a gentle way to move my body without leaving the house. Now I’m hooked because it feels good and I can see (and feel) it building strength in my arms, shoulders and back!!! It’s so good!

[busybeerunningfree]

Same! I started only this week and I already feel benefits! I started it because I was getting back pain from my desk job and it’s definitely improved! Also - doyogawithme.com is freaking awesome if you don’t know about it already!